The Cipher of Silences (eBook)

A Language of Whispers

Adriana Bennett (Autor)

Ai (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
190 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-068575-9 (ISBN)

Infos

From the sterile hum of the United Nations to the jasmine-scented labyrinth of Karachi, Aaliya Shamsi, a UN interpreter fluent in six languages, feels adrift in a sea of words, belonging nowhere.  Then a telegram arrives, shattering the fragile peace of her world.  Her grandmother, Hana, has died, leaving a cryptic inheritance: notebooks filled with an unknown script, elegant as calligraphy, precise as mathematics-a language whispered from the depths of silence.
Pulled by an invisible thread, Aaliya journeys to Karachi, a city that both embraces and overwhelms her. The whispers intensify-family secrets veiled in polite Urdu greetings, the unspoken grief in her aunt's wary eyes.  The notebooks remain stubbornly unreadable until she enlists the help of Dr. Nicholas Jacobson, a brilliant but eccentric linguist, haunted by his own past failures. Their collaboration, a clash of logic and intuition, ignites a spark-not just of intellectual discovery but of unexpected connection.
Hidden wartime letters reveal a poignant love story, whispered messages, and cryptic references to a 'language of flowers,' a network of resistance hidden in plain sight.  The trail leads to Kyoto, where a local historian, ostracized for her controversial research, unveils a hidden world of poets, artists, and musicians who used Hana's cipher to defy a brutal regime. But their quest attracts the attention of a shadowy figure, 'The Archivist,' a collector of wartime secrets with a sinister agenda.
In the sterile archives of the International Red Cross in Geneva, the final pieces of the puzzle click into place, revealing a devastating truth about Hana's coded messages-pleas for help that went tragically unanswered.  Unlocking the past, however, exacts a heavy price.  Painful family secrets surface, and the Archivist closes in, transforming Aaliya's quest into a desperate fight for survival. The language of whispers, once a symbol of love and resistance, becomes a weapon.
Can Aaliya master the cipher in time to protect her family and expose the truth?  In a breathtaking climax, she confronts the Archivist, wielding the power of language-the weaponized silence of Hana's cipher-to reveal his ancestor's crimes to the world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• ISBN-10: 0-00-068575-5 / 0000685755
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-068575-9 / 9780000685759